Open Thread – Birds of Homer Continued.
Ready for a birding game? OK, it’s time to play “Spot the Cormorant!”
The rest of the birds are murres. They fit the northern ecological niche that would be filled with penguins if we had them. And they do sort of look like mini-penguins. I know it would probably be the worst thing in the world, but after my fantasy of regenerating mammoths from DNA, and breeding Siberian tigers in the Brooks Range, I think it would be fun to transport some penguins up here from Antarctica. I bet they’d love it.
(ducking flying shoes hurled by biologists)
Hey, does anyone know why Shannyn’s show is a rerun today?
Sarah Palin, “Great Commission” team up with American Express for “global partnership”
Remember the Great Commission? (click here to enter “The Kingdom” http://www.alaskagreatcommission.org/)
It’s part of the’ 7 Mountains Mandate’. Which it seems that American Express is sponsoring? I think all of you American Express account holders should let them know what you think.
Master’s Commission: Wasilla, Alaska is a branch of Master’s Commission International. Master’s Commission is a nationwide youth program of the Assemblies of God Church that seeks individuals who are “violent in their pursuit of righteousness.”Official Site: The Master’s Commission
Sarah Palin’s Ties
Ed Kalnins, the pastor of Wasilla Assembly of God Church in Wasilla, Alaska, appeared with former congregant and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin on stage during a June 2008 service. During the service, Palin prayed with Master’s Commission members for an oil pipeline and called the Iraq War “God’s plan.” Later in the service, Kalnins expressed his belief that Alaska was a “refuge state” where thousands would congregate during the “Last Days.”The Huffington Post: Palin’s Church May Have Shaped Controversial… (September 2, 2008)
Master’s Commission Videos
In a promotional video for the Wasilla branch of the Master’s Commission, projectiles resembling nuclear missiles are seen shooting out from Wasilla and igniting a worldwide conflagration as a narrator claims, “Master’s Commission is one of the keys in God’s plan for Alaska, the United States, and the entire world.”
http://www.mahalo.com/masters-commission-wasilla-alaska
OrganizationGlobal Partnership Ministries
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Location4149 Checkmate Drive, Anchorage, AK 99508
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Date and TimeThis is an Ongoing Opportunity
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Here in Anchorage, we target the neglected neighborhoods. Your team will work with multi-ethnicities including Sudanese, Hmong, Native American, Samoan, Hispanic, and African-American.
Our belief is that the Great Commission is not for the World to go to church, but for the Church to go to the World. Where are people at, and how can we go to them, serve them in the Name of Christ, and look for opportunities to have a verbal witness.
We partner with local churches and local agencies in this ministry and provide followup for those your team reaches.
In the mornings, your team will do servanthood ministry – working at Food Bank, senior centers, prayer walking, painting/repair of homes of needy, partnering with the City for cleanup, etc. In the afternoons, your team will work in local parks doing backyard bible school, games and sports with unchurched children and youth.
In the evenings you will help host neighborhood evangelistic cookouts and block parties.
Oh yeah, there will be some time to play and enjoy the awesome beauty of Alaska. Keep reading…
We are hosting ten consecutive weeks of teams. YOU CHOOSE!!
May 30-June 5
June 6-12
June 13-19
June 20-26
June 27-July 3
July 4-10
July 11- 17
July 18-24
July 25- 31
Aug 1-7
Contact Scott Kirby at missionmatch@aol.com and we’ll send you a brochure/application. Or give us a call here in Alaska at 907-677-0698. We need your help!
http://www.takepart.com/actions/alaska-adventure-that-gives-back%3A-summer-2010/120337
Remember Scott Kirby? He was a leader at Sean Parnell’s church. Now it seems that he’s on to a different game, but still the same.
Chugach Baptist Association http://www.chugachbaptistassociation.org
Christian Pilots of Alaska http://www.christianpilot.org Oh, yes. Plates of cookies, boxes of bibles.
Native New Life http://www.nativenewlife.org
Missionary Aviation Repair Center http://www.marcalaska.org THIS IS FRANKLIN GRAHAM
Tanalian Bible Camp http://www.tanalianbiblecamp.org THIS IS FRANKLIN GRAHAM
Hatcher Pass Baptist Association http://www.hpbaak.org THIS IS ASSOCIATED WITH FRANKLIN GRAHAM
“During the “salmon frenzy” of the last two weeks of July near the town of Kenai, Alaskans congregate on the northern and southern banks of the Kenai River and use a net to “dip” salmon, which is permissible for Alaskan residents as subsistence fishing. Whole families come to participate.
Opportunities for ministry include providing games and activities for children while their parents fish; setting up fish-cleaning stations along the river; giving away grilled hotdogs; helping local police and park personnel with traffic control; and conducting chapel services at points along the river.
A “Bible in a Bucket” ministry coincides with the annual Iditarod dogsled race. Churches purchase five-gallon buckets that have a Bible verse printed on them and then place a Bible, tracts and various other items inside. During church events in the villages, pastors and missionaries hand out the buckets or go door-to-door with them. The buckets are gratefully received by Native Alaskans who use them for such things as carrying supplies, gathering berries, holding fish, washing clothes and utensils and changing oil in engines.
“It provides a great ice-breaker and gives the pastor/missionary an opportunity to share the Gospel,” said Brenda Crim, a missionary with the North American Mission Board.
I was born and raised on Long Island and, for the last ten years I was there, rented the ground floor apartment of a house on the water. My house was situated at the spot where two canals met and widened into quite a large bay. It was apparently THE place to be if you were a merganser passing through during migration. Each spring and fall, the number of birds grew every day until the bay was covered with the little black and white feathered bodies, and the quacking sounded like the streets of Hong Kong at rush hour.
One VERY early Sunday morning when the noise woke me up from a sound sleep, I took my bleary-eyed self to my sliding glass door and did a rough estimate of how many ducks there were. Somewhere between 700 and 1,000 of the little quackers were out there, happily paddling around and making enough noise to wake the dead. Fortunately, they usually only stayed a week or so before moving on and leaving me to get some much-needed sleep!
I also had two much quieter visitors one March when a nor’easter blew two harbor seals in from the ocean. They spent the day in the bay having a grand old time, catching flounder and tossing them into the air before swallowing them. They were MUCH better neighbors than the mergansers…and highly entertaining to boot!
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See you later, sweet po-taters
Sleep tight, an’ don’t let the Bed Bugs bite.
There was the island of dwarf wooley mammoths, I think off the Coast of Washington state, that lived till about 10,000 years ago.
Some how they got stranded when the frozen land bridge began to melt and as they over consumed the food of the island, bread themselves smaller and smaller and eventually died off.
You can have your big naked mammoths if I can have my little warm fuzzy ones. There were a lot or really neat critters in N. America until relatively recently, in geological time. It would be pretty cool to get them back.
First should be the Carrier Pigeon and Carolina Parakeet that Europeans wiped out.
I just saw what Sarah said on Billo’s show tonight. Grrrrrr………
Sarah Palin is a complete idiot, she lies and her ignorance is beyond belief. Her shameless “act” is getting so old. I am so mad that her b/s goes out over the airwaves and she is given credence by Fox.
Had to vent that, but I don’t feel any relief in doing so. Grrrrrrrrr…….
Oy Vey! Bristol and Levi back together again??! Go have a look at Gryphen’s latest blog entry at The Immoral Minority.
Hurry up and get the popcorn! If this one is true, a Certain Somebody’s big, fat, Bumpitty Head is gonna explode!!!
“Big Fat Bumpity Exploding Head”. Oh how I hope that will show up as a fabulous video with a great song attached!
POTUS address ? Opinion ?
I was wanting him to give me some hard, cold details…like what, exactly, we should expect in the next 2, 3, 12 months and years…how much, exactly, is gushing out each day… how much it’s costing the Gulf coasters each day… things like that. I think I wanted him to tell all of us –all at the same time– the facts and numbers as he knows them at the moment – the messes’ ‘hot off the press’ details that he’d gotten the latest briefing(s) on.
I think everyone knows the Gulf is in bad shape with the continuing gushing, but I have a feeling very few know *how* bad it is — if POTUS had given us the info, the low down skinny on it, I think ‘we’ –ALL of us– could’ve *easily* seen how urgent the *rest* of the message he gave us, really is.
As it is, I think, with everyone working from a different set of numbers to create their own, personal ‘bad’ reference/scale, what POTUS was telling us, didn’t have the impact, imho, it should have had.
If one person is thinking it’s a gushing of 5,000 barrels per day and someone else is thinking it’s 15,000 barrels a day, they don’t have the same reference… and when you consider the *actual* number is probably [closer to and even *more than*] 100,000 barrels a day! [YIKES!! ‘latest’ figure, today], well, then, there’s surely a problem in getting everyone on the same page.
Same, too, with a ‘time line’ for recovery. Since I’ve *no* idea how long it’ll take for the various jobs, marshes, lives, and whatnot to resume some sense of normalcy, I really did want POTUS to give me –and everyone else– some sort of data/details to work with. I know he doesn’t have the answers to the questions, that he doesn’t know the exact and concrete of any of this, but I sure did want to hear from him a ‘base’ from which I –and everyone else!– could at least begin wrapping our minds around the enormity of the problem.
I thought he did a good job of telling us his plans for the ‘next-in-line’ future, but I sure did want some “sensus communis” facts, figures, and details [for the ‘now-in-line’ future] so we ALL knew/know where we are *currently* standing…and what has to be overcome to get to the ‘next-in-line’ part. Maybe that was just me, though. What did you think of his address? beth.
Loved the picture, AKM. We have comorants here in NC. I really like watching them fish. They can certainly travel a long distance underwater. Comorants are the birds used by the Chinese to catch fish. They put rings around their throats so they cannot swallow the fish.
I will always remember the first time I ever saw a river otter. I guess because it’s the only time I have ever seen one. It was in a creek near one of our local lakes. It took awhile for it reigster what I was looking at. I sat and watched it for about 2 hours as it played and hunted. They are a lot bigger than I thought they would be.
I want a car…I miss going out into the woods.
Late Afternoon on the Open Thread, so Vincent. meet NASA. 🙂
Starry Night Scavenger Hunt
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Book, swing, shade, pond-side…quite comfortable for a “heat index” falling from triple digits…
pool time to yard-work work-out time near perfect balance today…and took care of a little business at the union hall, too.
Tomorrow…errands in town and the “moving” sale at a school greenhouse. See what’s left of their vegetable and herb plants, hanging baskets, shrubs native and exotic…(always looking to add to the hedgerows since the western neighbor clear-cut his piece of the forest a few years back…lots of displaced birds and other critters to shelter and feed…) Last year I spent $50, the car was so Full I had to hold 2 baskets on my lap. DH Happy rolls his eyes, but I love digging in the forest. (sending Buf an invitation to come dig in the forest anytime, and a virtual chin rub or biscuit)
Daylight still, so unplugging until time for Our President to talk about BP and the Gulf of Mexico.
See you later, sweet po-taters.
I should have said he wanted to have wages frozen for teachers and government employees but there was a lot of protesting about that Idea. http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/node/853
I am going to put this article here that5 I found while trying to find out who was president about 36 years ago and put a freeze on wages and came across it because Regan did in California while he was governor. Kind of puts The people who claim Regan made smaller government his priority false. http://www.thedailycrux.com/content/4579/Government
Thanks, as always, for the lovely bird pix, AKM. They’re a treat, and I did spot the cormorant :).
For those who need a little uplifting, read some stories of folks dealing with the economy by forming (more) self-reliant communities: http://www.greenamericatoday.org/pubs/realgreen/articles/cooperationisgreen.cfm
There’s so much we can do to help each other. Coming here (and to the chatroom) helps me maintain my sanity, so a hearty thank you ((( hugs ))) to all mudpuppies and hushpuppies. I appreciate you.
Health and peace.
Sorry to keep posting about his topic but it deserves a read:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/jun/15/sarah-palin-meets-margaret-thatcher
OMG…. i would like you to read this posted by me on the forum. first page at the bottom.
https://themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,10143.0.html
“cheers”..taking a sip of ‘beverage’
Fun reading…thanks for the link!
I just read a little bio about Thatcher since something bothered me about some Palinistas calling her “just a housewife” who rose to power (when trying to claim that she is similar to the little pit bull). Palin’s fans love to draw similarities between Palin and Thatcher because they are supposed to have similar backgrounds. But, if the truth be told (and I know Palin’s fans don’t like to be confused by pesky facts) they are as dissimilar as you can get. Thatcher is an Oxford graduate and studied law. She became a barrister (lawyer), married a member of the conservative party and became active in politics. She served in several positions and (shockingly) didn’t quit any of them! You may want to read more here:
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/COLDthatcher.htm
I never liked Margaret Thatcher (I’m a believer in unions, and Britain has yet to recover from various privatizations), but she is certainly very accomplished. That Palinistas see similarities between the ex-prime minister and the half-term half-wit speaks volumes about how very little they know.
For those who have asked for updates on the kittens that were born in March :
12 weeks later the little beans are still with me. I fought naming them. I really did. It happened anyway.
So – the twin males have been named Samuel L. and Jackson. The variations of nicknames is endless and have included Sam I Am , Sam Are I ( Samurai ) , Sammich and Sam A Nella . Also Jack the Ripper, Pirate Jack , Jack in the Box ( he sits in a box for long periods of time) and Jacksonville Florida. ( no sense asking )
The tasmanian devil black runt ended up dubbed Bo Bo and is simply not right in the head. She is often in a corner, licking it .Then falls asleep, mid lick. It is also not entirely “cat”. I’m quite sure it’s also part owl. Big, puffy and black with huge perfectly round eyes. She perches high up near the ceiling, making tribble noises at us. (doesn’t meow – just tribbles) If you’ve never heard the sound, here it is : http://www.startrekanimated.com/tas_sounds/tas_sound_tribble.wav Sounds just like her.
#2 runt, gray and white is “Scraggles”. She looks like the name sounds. Also has incredibly stumpy legs like a daschund. We often find her hanging in between the curtain panels of the front hallway door. Just hanging there and staring. I say hello. She squeaks. I walk away. She seems happy so I leave her there.
So there ya go. Kitty update. I do fear I have officially become a cat lady.
yes Buff you have indeed become a cat lady. just don’t wander around the neighborhood calling “here kitty kitty here kitty kitty and looking simple minded like i do when i see a feral cat skulking around. i know teh kitteh won’t come to me and won’t be able to abide being cooped up in an apartment but my heart hurts when i see one so i try anyway.
Buff!!! Totally awesome, dudette!!! I’m thjinking you should get a t-shirt made, “I AM the Cat Lady !” We have a runt cat , also and her legs are much shorter than her brother, who lives next door ( the 6 thousand dollar cat – head/jaw re-wired after being run over , and both rear legs with pins when a tree fell on him.)
you’ll never have a cold nite with all dem kittahs curled on you !!!
But what kind of cormorant is it? There’s more than one species in Alaska. Inquiring minds want to know.
Thank you for your blog AKM, I’m trying finish a degree in oceanography and really need to focus and stay positive to be productive. But I worked with fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico for a few years a while back and still consider that community as family. I spent day after day on the dock sampling fish, worked alongside fishermen (learned so much from them), worked aboard research boats out of Pascagoula, had a little skiff tied to the dock on a bayou in the back yard, ran a string of crab traps, literally lived off fresh catch (very poor biologist) and loved it, swam with the dolphins, dove on the Flower Gardens, enjoyed countless sunrises just soaking in the beauty and feeling connected and alive. I remember a Great Blue Heron would perch in the Live Oaks over the bayou- if you’ve ever heard one up close at dawn – like some prehistoric rooster. I liked to sit on the dock at night and listen to the baby alligators chirp. So now… images from the Gulf are so painful and I just can’t take them in without being overwhelmed and feeling completely hopeless. I get emails from my brother who is on a boat helping with the cleanup and I’m worried about his health. I hope to defend by the end of summer and then take some time to join my brother this fall. So please keep those images of clean, healthy birds and wildlife coming! It means a lot to me- gives me hope.
Good luck with your work this summer. Your image of the Gulf is wonderful, I’m sure someday it will return and hopefully some places will be successfully defended.
We have heron here in CA too. I love those birds. They are so graceful and fearless standing in the freeway medians.
Or on the tops of gazebos next to pools and ponds with the neighbor’s expensive koi…SUSHI LUNCH!
I see them here near the water, never on the freeway, but maybe that’s because I’m looking at the Jacaranda trees that are in bloom.
Best of everything to you and your brother. Many thanks to you . My son wants to go down to help but doesn’t know how to go about it .
Your description reminds me of Emerald Isle, NC. I used to take the kids on the off season and would nearly have miles of beach to ourselves. The kids ran along shore following the dolphins, we watched the sun rise and set each day, enjoyed watching the pelicans for hours, my daughter chased the sandpipers until she couldn’t run anymore and it was simply paradise. I hear you about not being able to take in the sadness of it all. I think we’re all feeling each others grief as well as that of the earth and creatures. It’s just so big and deep.
And you’re right – the images of healthy birds and a clean environment feeds the soul and lifts the spirits. Thanks AKM !
Tanaga12…first let me congratulate you on your accomplishing a very difficult course of study for the PhD.. i am absolutely sure that you will defend beautifully and wow your committee. you give me hope, my dear, for the future. i know,without a doubt that it is young people like yourself who will make this world a paradise. lift up your head, cast off despair, and spit in the devils eye. you will win. we will win. we can do anything. we will clean that gulf and make it look like it did at the dawn of it’s creation. yes we can. yes we will and we will do it together.
Since this is an “Open Thread”, has anyone written, or will Shannyn Moore be writing something on what she discussed on her show yesterday about (I think they were called) fissures allowing oil to escape at the bottom of the ocean in the gulf caused by the explosion? I didn’t hear all the show. Thank you.
AKM, that is so funny about the penguin! My nephew was so excited about seeing penguins when he moved to Alaska.
Oops, hit submit too soon! Anyway, he really felt cheated when he found out they lived at the other end of the earth. 🙂
About ten years ago, a fishing boat working off southeast Alaska saw something unusual swimming in the water. They scooped it up with a net and brought it onboard. It was…a penguin! A Magellanic Penguin, I think it was called, the kind who live in the Galapagos Islands. The crew took pictures of it walking around on deck. They gave it a couple of herring, then let it go. They reported it looked well-fed and healthy. It was probably the first and only time a penguin was found in Alaska.
Ah, you beat to it, but here’s a link to the story: http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/080102/sta_penguin.shtml
T’was a Humboldt penguin, apparently.
Thanks, InJ! It was driving me crazy that I couldn’t come up with the right name for that particular species of penguin.
I’m sure he was looking for my nephew! Awww!
Of course, boodog! He heard your nephew was looking for him! 😉
We took our son and wife over to Seldovia by Gull Island, through Eldred Passage. Saw, I think, all the wonderful birds, plus quite a few rafts of otters and other marine animals. It was all beautiful and relaxing.
We live in a paradise.
A really good column about Palin’s opportunistic photo op:
http://opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2010/06/thatcher-and-palin-out-of-frame-out-of-bounds.html
Tea Party analysis:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/06/understanding-the-tea-party-ii.html
Excellent description of what we are seeing with the pretend conservatives. It explains a lot, and also explains why those of us who are sane can’t quite figure out their reasoning. That’s because it doesn’t make sense to anyone with clear thinking.
More on Bloody Sunday.
“Mr Cameron said Lord Saville ‘finds that on balance the first shot in the vicinity of the march was fired by the British Army.
‘He finds that none of the casualties shot by the soldiers of Support Company was armed with a firearm.’
While shots were fired by republican paramilitaries ‘none of this firing provided any justification for the shooting of civilian casualties’.”
Lord Saville found that ‘in no case was any warning given before soldiers opened fire’.
There was a ‘serious and widespread loss of fire discipline’ among the troops and that none of the soldiers ‘fired in response to attacks or threatened attacks by nail or petrol bombs’.
Many of the soldiers ‘knowingly put forward false accounts in order to seek to justify their firing’.
Lord Saville’s findings disclosed that many of those shot were fleeing the troops or assisting the wounded.”
Ok, at first glance this seems like a thorough inquiry.
I was very pleased to see this, Irish. It feels like I’ve been keeping my fingers crossed for the peace process since the Good Friday Accord of 1998. I’m hoping this sign of good faith on the part of the British will help keep the very wobbly cart moving forward. I am very impressed that the British have owned up to this huge and tragic mistake. Best wishes to the entire island from your friend Mag.
Irishgirl, I heard that on NPR today on my way home from work. As I listened to Mr. Cameron’s speach, I said to myself, “Now the healing can finally begin.”
Apologies for repeated posting. I have fallen into the spammer machine and Snos is trying to rescue me. 🙂
Spam and rum go well together , Irish 🙂
I’ve never tried that combination.
Wow, the Saville Report has come out today. It was an inquiry into Bloody Sunday.
“The British Prime Minister David Cameron has apologised for what he said were the ‘unjustified and unjustifiable’ events of Bloody Sunday following the publication of Lord Saville’s inquiry into the killing of 14 civilians.”
http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0615/bloodysunday.html
I saw that. My reaction was basically OMFG. It’s unbelievable (I don’t mean the report, but that it actually happened).
We have two incredible robins in our garden. Hubby can’t do the gardening properly cos they keep getting in the way. They are very tame and fascinating to watch!
It is a beautiful, hot, sunny day in Dublin. I love this weather.
Lovely picture
And, the fact is, do NOT tick off God with tacky stuff. She will not be amused. We drove by this thing years ago. Looked like the swamp monster rising up out of the bayou.
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/dayton-news/jesus-statue-destroyed-by-fire-762245.html?cxtype=rss_local-news
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-ksuOaI61g
I think there’s be few PO’d fishermen ,also, too, if ya transplanted a few penguins,,,,,, just one more animal eating their fish…. 🙂 but nothing a little aerial shooting couldn’t resolve…hehehhehe!
Nah. The sea lions would take care of the population balance. Even without shotguns.
Great shot!
Out here on the East Coast, we have cormorants. I love how they play homage to the sun. Well, dry their wings, but it looks cool.
We don’t have murres, but a bit further north we have Puffins! Sort of like penguins before they lost the ability to fly.
Of course, being here in the western hills . . we DO have river otters! Not Puffins.
AKM recently shared a picture of a puffin with us. i was really amazed at this lovely bird and fell in love with the species. i found a pic of a Puffin at this sight….http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birds/atlantic-puffin.html
what a face!!
We have cormorants here on the NW coast too. The fallen trees are lined with them, outstretched wings and long necks held toward the sun. In the water, they look a bit like the Loch Ness Monster, with just their head and neck showing.
I always wondered why they sit so long with their wings outstretched. It’s kind of fascinating. I’ve watched them many times while waiting for the ferry back to Point Defiance.
cormorants are a less evolved waterfowl than ducks and geese, their feathers don’t have that oily surface to keep them “dry” and insulated… so when they tend to get waterlogged after being in the water for a while… hence , they have to dry their feathers by opening their wings.
Good Morning! Lovely picture AKM. I sometimes have little fantasies about having wildlife here in Ohio that would send biologists into a tizzy as well. My latest? River otters! I think they’re adorable and would love to see them hanging out in our local waterways.
Off to work. It should be raining when I get off work, so I may be able to get caught up with reading. Have great day everyone!
Merry….. we ought to get us some of those cute river otters and release them in Ohio. we prolly have to do it at night, in the darkest dark, and be sneaky about our intentions since we don’t want to get shot by them pesky fishermen. here is a link to some cute pics. they are adorable aren’t they.
http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%3Fei%3DUTF-8%26p%3Driver%2Botters&w=457&h=367&imgurl=cuteotters.com%2Fuploads%2FCute_Otters_036.jpg&size=55.4kB&name=Cute+Otters+036+jpg&rcurl=htt
merrycricket & bubbles– no RIOTs in Ohio? I think PA has them, just leave a trail of fishy things and perhaps they’ll move across the border….. Actually– being a biologist, I had to do a little checking. Try this link: http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/parks/kidsthings/natthing200801/riverotter0108/tabid/19593/Default.aspx
and this one to see the best spots in Ohio to view RIOTs: http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/Home/wild_resourcessubhomepage/ResearchandSurveys/WildlifePopulationStatusLandingPage/RiverOtter/tabid/19321/Default.aspx
Happy Otter Spotting!!!!!
Thanks Kim. Guess I should get out of my cave from time to time to see what’s happening. I Have been operating under some REALLY OLD information about the river otter population in Ohio. I need to update the data in my brain! LOL
Um, no river otters at that link.
Clarifying – no river otters at the link from bubbles.
@ Kim: those are great pictures and information about river otters. When we were at the San Diego Zoo, we saw some. They really look like logs when they are swimming along. They look different than the sea otters I’m used to seeing around Puget Sound.
Dagnabbitt Pat!!! there ain’t no otters in my link! Cripes! i don’t know wha’ happened.
We have ocean otter around here in CA. They are so cute and fun to watch.
If you drive Highway 1, stop in at Morro Bay and drive out to the Rock. About 100 feet before the Rock pull off and park on the bay side. There is a big extended otter family in residence floating around on their backs, nursing the young, and munching crab and eel. They are just so cute.
I’ve seen that, even think I have a low-grade video of it from my camera. It was soooo cool! They are cuties.
great picture
Maybe they’re playing a game of duck, duck, goose?